He taught himself to code, built an MVP that went nowhere… then one viral post on Hacker News turned it into a company with over 10,000 paying users.
Now, his content-recall tool has been likened to Google’s NotebookLM.
This is the story of Paul Richards and how he built Recall.
🧵👇2/ Paul grew up in South Africa, studied electrical engineering, and started a master’s program in radar systems.
When a tiny cybersecurity startup in Cape Town offered him a role, he dropped out.
It was mostly customer support, but it changed his life.
Sep 9, 2025 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Groq just announced Compound is now generally available to everyone.
The chief architect is not who you might expect.
It is a Stanford sophomore who went from viral GitHub apps to leading Groq's agent product in under a year.
This is the story of how @benklieger built the most exciting agentic architecture available today. 🧵2/ Ben’s journey to Compound started early.
In school, he spent his time building. Social platforms and trade tools, experiments that taught him a deeper truth: The most intelligent systems are defined by making the right decisions at the right time.
Aug 19, 2025 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
This solo founder taught himself how to code last year. Now his open-source writing platform is taking on Google Docs, Substack & TipTap, powered by Groq.
This is the story of William Loveday Powell and how he built Snow Leopard. 🧵👇 2/ One year ago, Will wasn’t a coder. He learned React, TypeScript and Next.js using AI tools, not for a job but to fix what felt broken.
The first thing he wanted to fix was writing.
Aug 4, 2025 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
These two founders took on the $350B call center industry with a voice agent built using open-source tools. No budget. No headcount. No excuses.
What started as a quick fix for a parent’s small business, now handles 100K+ real calls per month.
This is the story of @phonely_ai, and how Will Bodewes and Nisal Ranasinghe built what every big player said was impossible.
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Will and Nisal were deep into AI research, each pursuing a PhD in Australia, when Will’s dad called with a real-world problem:
“I’m losing customers. I can’t hire enough receptionists. Everyone calls at once, and no one picks up.”
So they did what most wouldn’t. They built the solution themselves.
Jun 30, 2025 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This solo founder built an open-source competitor to Perplexity with no team, no funding, and no permission.
What started as a weekend project now powers over 1M searches, with 60K+ monthly users.
This is the story of @sciraai and how Zaid Mukaddam built what others wouldn’t.
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Like many great dev stories, it started with frustration.
Zaid wanted a better way to search across the web using AI. Something fast, clean, and customizable.
Perplexity was powerful, but felt closed and out of reach. So he started building.
Jun 19, 2025 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This student-built AI startup hit 50K users while its founders were still cramming for midterms. No funding. No fancy titles. Just conviction and code.
This is the story of Opennote, a tool to rethink how students learn. Built from need. Powered by Groq.
🧵👇 2/ It started like most good dev projects: frustration.
Abhi Arya, Rishi Srihari, and Vedant Vyas were undergrad students stuck in passive lectures, rewatching videos that didn’t help much.
They weren’t trying to launch a company. They just wanted to understand the material—and thought they could build something better.
Apr 15, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Now in preview – Compound Beta, our first compound AI system on GroqCloud that can search the web and execute code 🔥 More in 🧵
1/4 Build with access to the internet and the ability to run code with a one line change to your model string.
